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We run into situation when we needed to change name of already added salt minion. Here is few simple steps that will get this done. On Salt minion Stop the Salt-Minion Service systemctl stop salt-minion Delete the current keys cd /etc/salt/pki/minion/ rm -rf minion.pub minion.pem Change the minions id in /etc/salt/minion_id vim /etc/salt/minion_id myminion.prolinuxhub.com On…

Very quick look at how to install and use Saltstack on one vm both server and minion. Also we loot at some basic commands that are needed to manage salt deployment Installing salt Salt server can be installed in many ways Option 1 (saltstack repo) yum install https://repo.saltstack.com/yum/redhat/salt-repo-latest-2.el7.noarch.rpm yum clean expire-cache yum install salt-master yum…